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“What kind of a horse?" "A miraculous kind of horse”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“To me soldiers had appeared to become younger as the war went on, and Rudy was no exception to this [...]. And like so many of them now he looked, without his helmet, like a child dressed up as a soldier.”

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“You should know better than to mount another's war-horse, I said with a smirk, Or perhaps he took offense to being called a mare.”

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Book:Beyond a Darkened Shore

Source: Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Oh, we take you into slaughter without a moment's thought. And yes, some of you come to enjoy it, to lust for that cacophony, that violence, the reek of blood. And so we share with you, dear horse, our peculiar madness. But who judges us for this crime against you and your kind? No one. Unless you horses have a god.”

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Book:Reaper's Gale

Source: Reaper's Gale

“Oh, we take you into slaughter without a moment's thought. And yes, some of you come to enjoy it, to lust for that cacophony, that violence, the reek of blood. And so we share with you, dear horse, our peculiar madness. But who judges us for this crime against you and your kind? No one. Unless your horses have a god.”

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Author:Steven Erikson

“But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.”

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Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Wake, soldier wake, thy war-horse waits To bear thee to the battle back;-- Thou slumberest at a foeman's gates,-- Thy dog would break thy bivouac; Thy plume is trailing in the dust, And thy red falchion gathering rust.”

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Book:The Poems of Thomas Kibble Hervey

Source: The Poems of Thomas Kibble Hervey

“The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.”

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Author:Ardel Wray

“Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the fire of Moloch? What remains to you as a prize of all the blood you have spilled, of all the travail and pain you have endured, of all the tears which your deeds have caused, when death hath broken the strong man's spear, and overtaken the speed of his war-horse?”

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“My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working in theater at the time. I had a small role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is a huge prestigious theater company back in England. I honestly thought that was as good as it got.”

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Author:Jeremy Irvine

“We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].”

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Author:Janusz Kaminski

“["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know.”

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Author:Janusz Kaminski

“I like the ending of the movie [War Horse], simply because it's such a demanding scene emotionally, and yet [the look] is all done on camera. I like the work not to be manipulated digitally. And it's all done on camera [in that scene].”

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Author:Janusz Kaminski

“[There, in War Horse] very little CGI. What happened there - because the horse was running very close to the trench, we had a rider. So in few instances, we had a rider dressed in a green suit. The rider would guide the horse through the frame, and through CGI [we removed] the rider. But that's about it.”

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Author:Janusz Kaminski

“There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.”

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Author:Joel Silver

“The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“He never gave up. And he does that for us”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?”

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Book:War Horse

Source: War Horse

“I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.”

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Author:Michael Morpurgo

“Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.”

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Author:Rudyard Kipling

“When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.”

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Author:Laozi

“What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?”

“What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.”

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Author:Stacey Snider